Dan Weiss, former federal judge and Roy Petty and Associates special counsel, was quoted a The Texas Lawbook article concerning Texas federal judges who are increasingly rejecting a 2025 Trump administration policy that reinterprets immigration law to treat long-term U.S. residents as “applicants for admission,” thereby denying them bond hearings while contesting deportation.  

Despite these lower-court rulings, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the policy, fueling a judicial conflict that will likely require a Supreme Court decision 

“The judges appear to be ‘understandably skeptical’ of the government’s new interpretation given the long history of interpreting the applicability of Section 1226 to persons who are present in the U.S. and not classifying them as applicants for admission,” says Weiss.  

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